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12 Sep 2017

C04 Climate change Motion 10 and amendments passed unan 12/9/2017

C04 Climate change Motion 10 and amendments

Congress notes the
irrefutable evidence that dangerous climate change is driving unprecedented
changes to our environment such as the devastating flooding witnessed in the UK
in 2004. Congress further notes the risk to meeting the challenge of climate change
with the announcement of Donald Trump to withdraw the US from the Paris Climate
Agreement.

Congress welcomes the
report by the Transnational Institute Reclaiming Public Service: how cities and
citizens are turning back privatization, which details the global trend to
remunicipalise public services, including energy, and supports efforts by
unions internationally to raise issues such as public ownership and democratic
control as part of solutions to climate change.

Congress notes that
transport is responsible for a quarter of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions and
believes that a reduction in carbon dioxide levels must be the basis of the
UK’s future transport policy in addition to building public transport capacity
and moving more freight from road to rail.

Congress believes that to effectively combat climate change
and move towards a low carbon economy we cannot leave this to the markets and
therefore need a strong role for the public sector in driving the measures
needed to undertake this transition.

Congress notes that
pension schemes invest billions of pounds into fossil fuel corporations. To
this end, Congress calls on the TUC to:

i.work with the Labour Party and others that
advocate for an end to the UK’s rigged energy system to bring it back into
public ownership and democratic control

ii.. advocate for a mass programme of retrofit and
insulation of Britain’s homes and public buildings

iii.. lobby to demand rights for workplace
environmental reps iv. lobby for the establishment of a Just Transition
strategy for those workers affected by the industrial changes necessary to
develop a more environmentally sustainable future for all, and develop
practical steps needed to achieve this as integral to industrial strategy v.
consult with all affiliates to seek input into the development of a cross
sector industrial strategy that works towards delivering internationally agreed
carbon emission reduction targets